Quality Control and Reliability, Volume 7

P. R. Krishnaiah0444702903, 9780444702906

Hardbound. This volume covers an area of statistics dealing with complex problems in the production of goods and services, maintenance and repair, and management and operations. The opening chapter is by W. Edwards Deming, pioneer in statistical quality control, who was involved in the quality control movement in Japan and helped the country in its rapid industrial development. He gives a program to keep a country in an ascending path of industrial development.
Areas covered in the further 23 chapters of the work include:
• reliability of hardware and process control software;
• the concepts and theory of reliability and the statistical inference problems arising therein;
• the aspects of Quality Control of manufactured goods.

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Table of contents :
Handbook of Statistics 7: Quality Control and Reliability……Page 1
Table of Contents……Page 3
Preface……Page 9
1. Transformation of Westem Style of Management……Page 12
2. Software Reliability……Page 18
3. Stress-Strength Models for Reliability……Page 37
4. Approximate Computation of Power Generating System Reliability Indexes……Page 65
5. Software Reliability Models……Page 83
6. Dependence Notions in Reliability Theory……Page 109
7. Application of Goodness-of-Fit Tests in Reliability……Page 122
8. Multivariate Nonparametric Classes in Reliability……Page 130
9. Selection and Ranking Procedures in Reliability Models……Page 139
10. The Impact of Reliability Theory on Some Branches of Mathematics and Statistics……Page 165
11. Reliability Ideas and Applications in Economics and Social Sciences……Page 183
12. Mean Residual Life: Theory and Applications……Page 222
13. Life Distribution Models and Incomplete Data……Page 232
14. Piecewise Geometric Estimation of a Survival Function……Page 257
15. Applications of Pattern Recognition in Failure Diagnosis and Quality Control……Page 287
16. Nonparametric Estimation of Density and Hazard Rate Functions when Samples are Censored……Page 318
17. Multivariate Process Control……Page 337
18. QMP/USP – A Modern Approach to Statistical Quality Auditing……Page 356
19. Review About Estimation of Change Points……Page 377
20. Nonparametric Methods for Changepoint Problems……Page 405
21. Optimal Allocation of Multistate Components……Page 428
22. Weibull, Log-Weibull and Gamma Order Statistics……Page 434
23. Multivariate Exponential Distributions and their Applications in Reliability……Page 468
24. Recent Developments in the Inverse Gaussian Distribution……Page 479
Subject Index……Page 491
Handbook of Statistics: Contents of Previous Volumes……Page 496